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After old William Randolph Hearst died last August, his heirs got a jolt from Marion Davies, the Chief's great & good friend for over 30 years. A document, signed by the Chief, was produced that seemed to give her control of his vast publishing empire. At first, administrators for the estate made light of the trust agreement as worthless. A second look convinced them that they might have been hasty. But no one wanted to fight the matter out in court. Last week, after a month of negotiating, the Hearst heirs signed an agreement that gave Miss Davies...
...been easy. A rude jolt was handed to his plans in the past week when big Ed Weaver, one of the two ends who are the only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
Then came the long plunge down. At first the little white airplane fell like a meteor. Gradually, as the air grew firmer, Bridgeman flattened her out, to 40¬, then 30°. The enormous speed died gradually. As he went back through the speed of sound he felt a jolt, but it did not amount to much...
...jolt a young person gets here will help him to build his youth group at home. We grow a little chain reaction. They won't forget that they were here with 5,000 kids like themselves...